Post Infomercial bits and lots of other quibbles
By LisaB on October 31, 2008 at 2:20 PM in Advertising, Arrogance, Barack Obama, Campaign promises, Current Affairs
The day after THE ONE tries to bypass media (sorta) and go “directly to the people,” and there is surprisingly little written yet. It’s an interesting situation. An infomercial buy like this one is nearly unprecedented (except for Ross Perot, but he had cool charts), so it’s hard to decide if it was a good idea or presumptuous overkill. While I’m not seeing too much MSM “reportage” on this yet, I’m not entirely sure why that is. They are so in the tank for BO you’d expect them to vibrate with mass tingles. So, why isn’t the wonderful, hopey, change after-school special of specials headlining all the news outlets’ most prestigious space?
Maybe they aren’t comfortable praising or taking seriously a political infomercial.
Maybe they think taking an infomercial at face value will make them look too partisan.
Maybe they are worried that if they cover it too much it will destroy the delicate balance of kinda sorta equal coverage.
Maybe they were all overcome by the soft focus imagery and soaring music and became mass hypnotized, in a euphoric state usually only found with the VERY best illegal substances.
Maybe they got a collective grip on Uppity’s hopey-change bong.
And maybe they’ll come out of it tomorrow. I don’t know. Note, I don’t for a second believe any sense of ethics or fair coverage is the issue here. Unfortunately, the above “reasons” are entirely ironic. Well, except for the last two. Anyway, here’s a few interesting tidbits.
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1) At The Corner on NRO, you could expect a tepid response at best, but here’s an interesting point.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think the night worked for him. The last time anyone did this — Ross Perot — it was so weird a world unto itself (strange-looking guy with pie charts) that, beached between Cybill and Murphy Brown (or whatever it was back then), it had a kind of integrity and distinctiveness. This time round, The O Show followed by the Phillies followed by Jon Stewart cumulatively undermined the candidate.
For a start, the show itself was slick only in a drearily generic way. The waving wheat and music made it seem like a standard campaign commercial, only longer — “It’s Morning, Noon And Night In America,” which is a big enough problem thanks to the media’s Obama cultists without the candidate himself piling on. As for the King Barack Meets [Insert Name Of Downtrodden Subject Here] stuff, aside from the fact that I don’t recognize the hellhole this country apparently is, there’s something faintly ridiculous in doing it in the middle of the Phillies winning the World Series. Maybe on Super Bowl Sunday, instead of Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunctioning, Obama could come out and interview people about how our entire rotten society is malfunctioning. And then The Daily Show kibbitzing stepped all over the infomercial even more.
Not having watched the show, I won’t quibble over anyone’s perceptions of it, but I do think it is interesting that it was sandwiched between the World Series and The Daily Show. That would tend to lower the seriousness of the show, if you took it seriously in the first place.
2) How did BO do in the ratings last night? According to Nielsen, he got about 21.7 % of households in top markets. While 21.7 % is not terribly impressive, it’s still 1 in 5 of households with a tv on at that time. But who was watching? I think that’s the more important question.
The Hollywood Reporter translates those Nielsen numbers.
Obama’s 30-minute primetime infomercial was seen by 33.6 million viewers across seven networks — including CBS, NBC, Fox, Univision, MSNBC, BET and TV One.
That’s 70% more people than watched the conclusion of the World Series last night on Fox (19.8 million). Clearly, Obama vs. McCain is more compelling to viewers this week than Phillies vs. Rays.
Nielsen estimates that roughly 71% of viewers were white, 17% of viewers were black and 15% were Hispanic.*
The NYT has a blurb right now, but it’s not worth your time, just a rehash of the above.
3) Newsbusters responded to a WaPo piece about the infomercial.
Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales offered his own endorsement of Obama for President with an oozy review of Obama’s half-hour infomercial, which he called “Obamavision.” That certainly was supposed to carry more than one meaning, including a tribute to Obama’s visionary politics. It wasn’t hidden in tiny type on the home page like yesterday’s sleaze-Internet-cash story. It stood out in bold lettering: “An Appeal to the Masses | Poetic and practical, Obama’s paid political broadcast was a montage of montages.” Shales was more syrupy than that in the full text:
Somehow both poetic and practical, spiritual and sensible, the paid political broadcast, which aired on seven major cable and broadcast networks (on Univision, it was identified as “Historias Americanas”), was a montage of montages, a series of seamlessly blended segments interweaving the stories of embattled Americans with visions of their deliverer, Guess Who.
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The half-hour was underscored with music in a kind of elegiac, Aaron Copland mode — sorrow and stature. Obama seemed as heroic a figure as Henry Fonda’s Tom Joad in “The Grapes of Wrath,” but with more of a Jimmy Stewart personality. He has come, the film said, to show us all the way, and if we don’t know it by now, and after all those millions spent to tell us, it’s our fault.
…Now it seemed to be turning into a Frank Capra movie; after all, “Grapes of Wrath” did not have a happy ending, but, according to last night’s multicast — in spectacular ObamaRama — this movie will.
Spectacular ObamaRama?
ObamaRama? Hey, isn’t supposed to be racist to suggest the guy is a celebrity? And Aaron Copland? He composed “Fanfare for the Common Man.” I don’t think that applies to BO.
4) Naturally, some people OMG just REALLY LOVED the BO commercial and just think it really, like, showed a picture, like, of how Barack can really touch all of us and bring us together in a caring way. Or some sort of drivel. Like this:
This was an expression of empathy, a report from Barack Obama about what he has learned after spending the better part of two years with a hurting populace.
The commercial, which aired on multiple networks at a cost of $4 million to the Democrat’s campaign, was poignant and direct. And it did hold out a measure of the “hope” that has been the essential message of the senator’s once-audacious and now-presumptive candidacy.
Of course, in order to sell change, you first have to sell despair:
But at a deeper level, Obama presented a chronicle of despair:
Sick people are having a hard time paying for medicine.
Old people are working to make ends meet.
Teachers are taking second jobs to pay for food.
Third-generation factory workers are watching the American dreams that they once took for granted turn into nightmares of dislocation and declining prospects.
Yeth, I read thith tho you didn’t have to. Now I have thugar poithning. Gotta get thome lemon thorbet to cut the thweetneth. Blech. Gack.
5) CBSnews had this to say about the infomercial and all those BO promises:
Without question, the Barack Obama infomercial served as a very slick and powerful recitation of the biggest promises he’s made as a presidential candidate. But the very bigness of his ideas is the problem: he seems blind to the concept his numbers don’t add up.
Let’s start with his highly suspect, and widely discredited, claim that he can find federal “spending cuts beyond the costs” of his promises. Very few independent economists believe he has identified the savings needed to offset his remarkable list of tax credits, tax cuts and spending pledges.
After going through a few fact checks, CBS mentions this:
Most of the time he spends the Iraq savings in the context of the roads he wants to build; sometimes it’s for the teachers he wants to hire. Tonight, he riffed rhetorically on the savings, asking how many scholarships could be funded, or how many schools could be built. In the end though, presuming he really saves $90 billion, he can only spend it once.
Remember he also mentioned rebuilding the military ($7 billion/yr); his education initiative ($18 billion/yr); and his energy initiative ($15 billion/yr). He did not mention the $188 billion that he would spend on the brand new stimulus package he has proposed.
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, CBS. All of us ignorant, bitter, non-professional bloggers have been SAYING THIS FOR MONTHS. Jeeeeez, dude, get a freakin clue.
6) The WSJ has an interesting piece about all the crowds BO attracts.
There is something odd — and dare I say novel — in American politics about the crowds that have been greeting Barack Obama on his campaign trail. Hitherto, crowds have not been a prominent feature of American politics. We associate them with the temper of Third World societies. We think of places like Argentina and Egypt and Iran, of multitudes brought together by their zeal for a Peron or a Nasser or a Khomeini. In these kinds of societies, the crowd comes forth to affirm its faith in a redeemer: a man who would set the world right.
As the late Nobel laureate Elias Canetti observes in his great book, “Crowds and Power” (first published in 1960), the crowd is based on an illusion of equality: Its quest is for that moment when “distinctions are thrown off and all become equal. It is for the sake of this blessed moment, when no one is greater or better than another, that people become a crowd.” These crowds, in the tens of thousands, who have been turning out for the Democratic standard-bearer in St. Louis and Denver and Portland, are a measure of American distress.
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. . .The coalition that has propelled his quest — African-Americans and affluent white liberals — has no economic coherence. But for the moment, there is the illusion of a common undertaking — Canetti’s feeling of equality within the crowd. The day after, the crowd will of course discover its own fissures. The affluent will have to pay for the programs promised the poor. The redistribution agenda that runs through Mr. Obama’s vision is anathema to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and the hedge-fund managers now smitten with him. Their ethos is one of competition and the justice of the rewards that come with risk and effort. All this is shelved, as the devotees sustain the candidacy of a man whose public career has been a steady advocacy of reining in the market and organizing those who believe in entitlement and redistribution.
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This election is the rematch that John Kerry had not delivered on. In the fashion of the crowd that seeks and sees the justice of retribution, Mr. Obama’s supporters have been willing to overlook his means. So a candidate pledged to good government and to ending the role of money in our political life opts out of public financing of presidential campaigns. What of it? The end justifies the means.
Interesting thoughts. It’s simply that a cult of personality has been developed around this dude. We’ve seen it for several months now. The problem is, historically, cults of personality don’t lead to good things. But hey, this guy is the messiah, so I’m sure everything’s copacetic.
7) The Christian Science Monitor has something to take seriously. While this author does not think BO is a socialist or espouses socialist mantras in the classical sense, he does think what could be coming from BO is a kind of socialism.
But what about a milder form of socialism? If reckoned as an attitude rather than a set of guidelines for running an economy, socialism might well describe Senator Obama’s economics. Anyone who speaks glibly of “spreading the wealth around” sees wealth not as resulting chiefly from individual effort, initiative, and risk-taking, but from great social forces beyond any private producer’s control. If, say, the low cost of Dell computers comes mostly from government policies (such as government schooling for an educated workforce) and from culture (such as Americans’ work ethic) then Michael Dell’s wealth is due less to his own efforts and more to the features of the society that he luckily inhabits.
Wealth, in this view, is produced principally by society. So society’s claim on it is at least as strong as that of any of the individuals in whose bank accounts it appears. More important, because wealth is produced mostly by society (rather than by individuals), taxing high-income earners more heavily will do little to reduce total wealth production.
This notion of wealth certainly warrants the name “socialism,” for it gives the abstraction “society” pride of place over flesh-and-blood individuals. If taxes are reduced on Joe the Plumber’s income, the rationale must be that Joe deserves a larger share of society’s collectively baked pie and not that Joe earned his income or that lower taxes will inspire Joe to work harder.
A warning shot that, like Republicans before them, the Democratic party will hew ever more to its extreme wing. We’ll just lurch from idiocies of the right to idiocies of the left. Get out your dramamine. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
8 ) The Hill has an interesting piece that bears watching. As every interest group or constituency that supports a candidate knows, before the inauguration the handout line forms. So, who would have an IOU from BO?
The Accountability Now coalition, whose members include the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), MoveOn.org and the United Steelworkers of America, plans to target members of Congress who waver on their agenda. The group is raising money to fund progressive primary challengers in 2010.
Created by liberal bloggers Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com and Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake, the Accountability Now political action committee has already raised $500,000 since starting up in March. The group hopes to press Democrats to use their majorities to pass liberal legislation and work with a White House occupied by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
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Joining the Accountability Now coalition means that they’ll extend their political efforts to legislation, particularly on measures that seek to increase healthcare coverage and make it easier to join and form unions, Burger said. SEIU and other coalition members will soon use its grassroots network to knock on doors and make phone calls to put pressure on members of Congress ahead of key votes, Burger said.
And just in case you still think these groups support various people because of principle:
Burger added that SEIU wants the Democratic-led Congress to deliver legislation almost as soon as it arrives.
9)The Boston Globe is starting to wonder if Obama would be a President tolerant of dissent. They’re wondering this now because?????
If opinion polls are right, Barack Obama is cruising to victory. As president, would he show the same forbearance as Bush in allowing his opponents to have their say, unmolested? Or would he attempt to suppress the free speech of those whose views he detested? It is disturbing to contemplate some of the Obama campaign’s recent efforts to stifle criticism.
When the National Rifle Association produced a radio ad last month about Obama’s shifting position on gun control, the campaign’s lawyers sent letters to radio stations in Ohio and Pennsylvania, urging them not to run it – and warning of trouble with the Federal Communications Commission if they did. “This advertisement knowingly misleads your viewing audience,” Obama’s general counsel Bob Bauer wrote. “For the sake of both FCC licensing requirements and the public interest, your station should refuse to continue to air this advertisement.”
Similar lawyer letters went out in August when the American Issues Project produced a TV spot exploring Obama’s strong ties to former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. Station managers were warned that running the anti-Obama ad would be a violation of their legal obligation to serve the “public interest.” And in case that wasn’t menacing enough, the Obama campaign also urged the Justice Department to launch a criminal investigation.
In Missouri, an Obama “truth squad” of prosecutors and other law-enforcement officials vowed to take action against anyone making “character attacks” on the Democratic candidate – a threat, Missouri Governor Matt Blunt later remarked, that had about it the “stench of police state tactics.”
Perhaps these efforts to smother political speech are simply the overly aggressive tactics of a campaign in its adrenaline-fueled sprint to the finish. But what if they are the first warning signs of how an Obama administration would deal with its adversaries?
Uh, You think??
10) According to Reuters, Qaeda wants Republicans “humiliated” in this election. Hmmmm. I guess they don’t want Democrats humiliated?
An al Qaeda leader has called for President George W. Bush and the Republicans to be “humiliated,” without endorsing a party in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, according to an Internet video posting.
———————–SITE (terrorism monitoring group) said militant postings on al Qaeda-linked websites typically discuss Obama in terms of his race, or his religion and foreign policy. Some forecast a racial crisis dividing the United States if he wins. Others say his planned phased withdrawal from Iraq would be a boon to al Qaeda’s affiliate and give it a base for Middle East expansion.
11) I just can’t leave you with something THAT depressing. So, here’s something more lighthearted. Apparently Erica Jong and some of her more delicate friends are having conniption fits – literally worrying themselves to death that BO could somehow not win. According to the New York Observer, Jong gave an interview to an Italian publication and some of her comments reflect the immeasurably great stress she is feeling over this election.
Here’s a translation of Jong’s more spirited quotes to the Milan-based Corriere, as selected by Rocca.
“My friends Ken Follett and Susan Cheever are extremely worried. Naomi Wolf calls me every day. Yesterday, Jane Fonda sent me an email to tell me that she cried all night and can’t cure her ailing back for all the stress that has reduces her to a bundle of nerves.”
“My back is also suffering from spasms, so much so that I had to see an acupuncturist and get prescriptions for Valium.”
——————“If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. And it’s not a coincidence that President Bush recalled soldiers from Iraq for Dick Cheney to lead against American citizens in the streets.”
She also laments that not all of America’s men of letters share her devotion to Obama.
“Tom Wolfe and John Updike are men of the right and Philip Roth is at this point a hermit who leads a monastic life in Connecticut, far from everything and everybody.”
Luckily, she said there is her and Michael Chabon, who, she says, have “taken the place of Susan Sontag and Norman Mailer respectively.”
I didn’t realize Jong was the new Sontag. Chabon is the new Mailer? I guess I’m the new Molly Ivins then. Except I’m not in Texas. And I don’t write as well as she did. And she was funnier. Oh darn.
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well, looks like Dear Leader has made at least one new fan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=381gFG4Crr8
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
So much for the ‘Messiah’ nonsense, eh?
Hey, Erica Jong, STFU.
Jeff Jacoby’s piece is terrific, and I just wrote him to relay that opinion. Please write him and tell him you appreciate his piece. In the age of Obama’s attempts at silencing critics, we need more work like that of Jacoby’s article.
Video: Obama calls $1 Trillion tax hike a “small adjustment” by re-defining $97K family income as “upper class”
I found a video clip in which Obama totally redefines what middle/upper class income is and who should pay more taxes. He is quoted on video. I think this is newsworthy, given the current focus on Obama’s plan to tax a larger number of families. The video shows Obama directly stating this. It is far less difficult to interpret than, say, the Chicago NPR audio-only about redistributive change. This is a video that’s ready-made for a campaign spot and for video news releases. All people will understand it.
In this video, Obama defined $97,000 family income as “upper class” and subject to $1 Trillion in tax increases in debate within the last year and in policy proposals. He also makes a similar claim in writing in an Op-Ed (see below).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-SavgJlBLA
The key minute: Watch from 1:15 to 2:15 for Obama’s remarkable claim that $97K family income is “upper class”
Of course there are other videos of this same debate, Nov 2007, Las Vegas from which you can clip these quotes, but this one just puts in the context of Obama/Biden redefining Middle Class income from $250K to $200K to $150K to $97K is “upper class.” and the top group—and subject to big tax hikes.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3638710&page=1
I wonder how many families with 2 or 3 kids in middle class suburbs of our major cities would consider their $97 K income to be “upper class.” If any of those kids plan to go to college, the families will hardly be living like the upper class on $97K.
Obama’s Op-Ed
http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2007/09/21/opinion/opinion/doc46f35dac127eb409456532.txt
“… raise the cap on the amount of income subject to the Social Security tax. If we kept the payroll tax rate exactly the same but applied it to all earnings and not just the first $97,500, we could virtually eliminate the entire Social Security shortfall.” – Op-Ed by Barack Obama, Quad City Times, Sep., 2007
Please reply to confirm receipt and please let me know if any of the links do not work for you.
Isn’t that just awful? It’s dangerous to have deluded people like this walking around giving interviews. If he wins this woman is going to have a really rude awakening and then what? Talk about bitter. How about angry? That’s why living in NYC is soon not to be an option. People are going to have a cow. Obama with his double speak is fostering a newly emerging class of angry, bitter crop of Americans. Let’s hope they don’t get a gun.
OBAMA IS GOING TO BUY ME A GUN TOO!!!!!
i can’t wait!
seriously, i am sure there is a plan afoot to arm his believers…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Is that woman nuts. She has drown in the Kool-Aid. If BO is going take over our lives why should anybody work. Let’s just let BO do it all.
I am going to be sick.
Please JM/SP 08.
URGENT..CHECK THIS OUT…CHILDRENS DANCE TROUPE AT KHALIDI DINNER HAVE ENACTED BEHEADINGS
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/10/exclusive_dance.html#comment
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Just lovely, that dinner was in 2003, and here’s what the troupe was doing in 2004, according to Schlussel:
In June 2004, I went undercover and attended a Dearborn fundraising dinner for Islamic Relief, the Muslim Brotherhood charity that is a front for HAMAS and Al-Qaeda. The event was MC’ed by Rayed Tayeh, who orchestrated the Starbucks Coffee boycott and who is believed to be a HAMAS operative.
Sanabel AlQuds performed to songs calling for martyrdom to “get back Palestine.” The kids were young boys, some of them appearing to be no older than seven years old.
But they didn’t just dance the debkah.
Suddenly the Sanabel AlQuds dancers pulled out fake swords and rifles and adorned three of their troupe respectively with an American, Isreaeli, and British flag. The others pretended to behead and/or shoot the boys wearing the flags. Then they put red scarves over the three boys heads, signifying blood and no head. Then, the flags were taken off, thrown to the ground, and trampled on by this young group of Milwaukee dancers.
nice…
sounds like the kind of organization Obama would have funded when he was on the board with America’s Favorite Terrorist™ in Chicago…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Because of this whacky “Political
Correctness” these groups will NEVER be charged with a Hate crime. Their actions are vile and a cruel brainwashing of children.
Lisa, PLEASE forgive me for hijacking your thread, but time is of the essence!
Here’s a copy of the email I just wrote to Susan. Ibeleive this idea has great merit and I would appreciate it if anyone here can help. If you also believe it has merut, please feel free to past the text of the ad am posting here ANYWHERE you think ‘the right’ person may see it… and run with it!
Lisa, again my sincerest apologies.
Here’s my email to Susan:
Susan,
I’m going to post this at NQ, but I wanted to send it to you as well.
Know any movers and shakers at the RNC or someone with a good connection to Rick Davis?
I know it sounds crazy (especially this late in the game), but I have an idea for a McCain ad that I believe would bring almost all the undecided’s into the fold.
In short, I believe the most powerful aspect of the ad would be to turn Obama’s own advertising against him,… Remind everyone that every Obama ad they see is another example of his “Broken Promise.”
I have been trying to get this idea to the RNC / McCain’s campaign for over a week .I would have loved to have seenthis ad before the half hour infomercial…Oh, well. (sigh) I am but just another poor working stiff without political connections.
One other powerful aspect is the ad would show Obama lying to Tim Russert. America LOVED Russert and I believe this is powerful!
I have no background in writing advertising, and I’m sure some of my ideas might benefit from further scrutiny.
Perhaps if I post this at NQ and people start pasting the ad into other blogs, SOMEONE from the RNC, McCains campaing… or maybe someone with enough connections can get the idea into the right hands.
I’m not looking for any personal gain, with one huge exception: the exception of my love of my country and my fear of what will become of us under Obama.
Thanks for all the great work at NoQuarter!
Best Regards,
Wiley
Here’s the text:
“Broken Promise”
>>>Begin with video clip of Obama pledging to accept public financing for campaign:<<>> Video clip of Obama praising McCain for his record of reaching across the isle<<>>Video Clip: On the January 22nd edition of “Meet the Press,” Tim Russert and Obama had the following exchange:<<>> Short video clip of Barack Obama Claiming $250,000 will get a tax break… then a short clip of Obama stating 200,00<<<
Narrator:
“Barcak Obama now says only those earning less than $150,00 will see a tax break. Can we really believe that number won’t continue to decrease if he’s elected? Barack Obama’s record shows he’s already voted to raise taxes on those making just $42,000 a year.”
Closing:
Narrator:
Barack Obama has raised close to billion dollars in campaign contributions – on a broken promise.
Every Obama ad you see is yet another example of Barack’s broken promise.
Not a broken promise to John McCain, (Pause)
A broken promise to you.
Before you vote on Tusday, ask yourself;
How much is Barack Obama willing to promise just to get elected?
Before you vote on Tuesday, ask yourself:
Just how many more promises is Barack Obama willing to break to get your vote?
On Tuesday the choice is clear.
Vote John McCain
Don’t know why but the full text didn’t paste.
Here it is:
Begin with video clip of Obama pledging to accept public financing for campaign:
Narrator: “In February 2007 Obama wrote to the American people: “I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election.”
Obama broke this promise.
This was not a promise made to John McCain or to Hillary Clinton, it was a promise made to the American people.
Why did Barack break his promise?
Video clip of Obama praising McCain for his record of reaching across the isle:
Narator: “Obama has praised McCain for reaching across the isle but when asked of Obama’s decision to opt out of Public Financing, Democratic Senator Russ Feingold, co-author of the McCain/Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill, called Baracks decision “a mistake.”
Video Clip: On the January 22nd edition of “Meet the Press,” Tim Russert and Obama had the following exchange:
Russert: ‘There’s been enormous speculation about your political future. Will you serve your six-year term as United States senator from Illinois?’”
Obama: “I will serve out my full six-year term. You know, Tim, if you get asked enough, sooner or later you get weary and you start looking for new ways of saying things. But my thinking has not changed.”
Russert: “So you will not run for president or vice president in 2008?”
Obama: “I will not.”
Narrator:
Obama broke this promise to his own constituants.
Short video clip of Barack Obama Claiming $250,000 will get a tax break… then a short clip of Obama stating 200,00
Narrator:
“Barcak Obama now says only those earning less than $150,00 will see a tax break. Can we really believe that number won’t continue to decrease if he’s elected? Barack Obama’s record shows he’s already voted to raise taxes on those making just $42,000 a year.”
Closing:
Narrator:
Barack Obama has raised close to billion dollars in campaign contributions – on a broken promise.
Every Obama ad you see is yet another example of Barack’s broken promise.
Not a broken promise to John McCain, (Pause)
A broken promise to you.
Before you vote on Tusday, ask yourself;
How much is Barack Obama willing to promise just to get elected?
Before you vote on Tuesday, ask yourself:
Just how many more promises is Barack Obama willing to break to get your vote?
On Tuesday the choice is clear.
Vote John McCain
Funny 3 Stooges Video of Obama-Pelosi-Reid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBjzAa1yikY
Another Distraction
http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/obama-logo-weather-underground-logo/
He’s despicable and that stupid symbol of his stood out like a sore thumb the very first time I saw it.
It’s no coincidence. They want to conquer and rule the world – they lust for the Treasury just like all meglomaniacs in history.
They despise our American traditions and the time is right to usurp our nation…
Yes, I believe in CHANGE. I think it has already taken place no matter the outcome of this election.
Vote American November 4th. McCain/Palin
Dreams From Our Forefathers ~ a Life of freedom and goodwill.
“All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best.” Occam’s razor
The real reason Obama is worried about Tuesday is that in the 37 state Democratic Party Primary contests, he won 18 of 37 elections. He also won 13 of 14 caucuses. His losses included Florida, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio; all battleground states. He has the MSM convincing voters that he can win a national 50 state election when he failed in doing so within his own party’s 37 multi-state contests.
McCain, on the other hand, won Florida, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio, during the Republican Primary season. And, the one caucus contest Obama lost; it was Nevada – another battleground state.
Question: What if the NFL’s NFC or AFC sent to the Superbowl a team that went 4-0 pre-season but played 1 under .500 in the regular season? The bookmakers in Vegas would offer laughable odds and the television network carrying the broadcast could not sell a dime’s worth of ad time at real Superbowl rates. Fans would boycott the game and sportswriters would mock the event.
Only the American voter will suspend disbelief and conclude a primary contest equals in value to a caucus contest. No, my friend, a caucus is a caucus and a primary is a primary. Obama is in a 50 state general election and he does poorly in those races. That’s why the campaign is worried and that’s why Obama will lose.
very food point…
well, this person might not think so:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=381gFG4Crr8
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Thanks, now tell 10 friends!
Well that video is now not avaialable. I am so tired of the is farking sh**!
And he should be. If I had lived in Michigan and Florida during the primary and had been treated the way the DNC treated those Democrats, I would be more than happy to use the general election to give the DNC a piece of my mind by voting McCain/Palin.
It’s just amazing to me that any person in a caucus state whose vote was ignored, thrown out, or sold, would even consider voting for The One.
I voted my Florida 1/2 vote for McCain.
-=chortle=-
hey i thought it was a 1/3 vote?
you work out some special deal with Dear Leader?
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Thanks for the vote but after reading some of these polls FL is making me very depressed, hell the entire map seems that every state is for Obama with these dam pollsters
The MSM and Obama stooges in government have invaded the privacy of regular folks like Joe the Plumber and Palin’s young children and viciously attacking them in order to discredit them and intimidate them into silence. Many in the MSM sat quietly by while the liberal “feminists” circled Palin and tried to rip her a new one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RjHDB3rVO4
Now that Obama is retaliating against reporters who ask tough questions and denying access to news outlets that don’t endorse him, some in the media are beginning to wonder if they get tossed under the bus after the election.
I guess McCain has been right all along. Elections get decided in the last 72 hours.
By the way, when will somebody bring up the “r” word? No, not racism. Reparations.
The shit has hit.
Keep this moving quickly…
PBS has an online poll posted, asking if Sarah Palin
is qualified.
Apparently the left wing knew about this
in advance and are flooding the voting with NO votes.
The poll will be reported on PBS and picked up by
mainstream media. It can influence undecided voters
in swing states.
Please do two things — takes 20 seconds.
1) Click on link and vote YES!
Here’s the link:
http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html
2) Then send this to every McCain-Palin supporter
you know, and urge them to vote and pass it on.
The last thing we need is PBS saying their viewers don’t
think Sarah Palin is qualified.
They’ve had this poll going since the beginning of time. I think they are just j6rking us around.
PALIN RALLY LIVE
Thank you.-
Jeeeeezush, Mandelay, this crap is at least a month old.
Every time I’ve looked at that stupid poll, it has been tied at 49. I expected the same today, but was somewhat surprised that it’s 51% Yes, she’s qualified.
I wonder why they never put up a poll like this for all the other state governors who have run for president? Like Clinton, Reagan, or more recently Huckabee or Romney?
Well, I guess we know the answer. They were men.
Just sent this poll link to FreeRepublic. Thanks!
Ready for the latest?
Obama told an ABCnews Reporter today , that those who don’t want to pay higher taxes, SELFISH !
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/obamas-new-atta.html
Insert foot in mouth and lose the election dumbass!
Oh and take care of your Aunt in Boston before calling others selfish !
Good work, Barry!
His running mouth, I mean mate, told an audience it was PATRIOTIC to pay higher taxes.
Got it!
It’s unselfish, and patriotic to let the feds mug my hardworking ass come April 15.
When we start paying higher taxes the people that will suffer are the charities that we donate our extra dollars to.
don’t forget the half brother living in a shack.
Hi,
I found out about your website from 538.com. I am always amazed at the accusations of a liberal media. There is no sense in mentioning all the things that they let Bush get a way with without publicity (gutting the constitution for one). But, what about not publicizing anything negative about McCain or Palin? I am going to insert the name of the Democratic equiavalent to what the Republican ticket has:
Joe Biden was just found guilty a couple of weeks ago of abusing his power.
Jill Biden was a member of an anti-American secessionist party for 7 of the last 8 years.
Joe Biden’s church members speak in tongues and believe in “end of days”, “witches”, and dinosaurs roaming the earth with people.
Barack Obama is a serial cheater and talks openly about his affair with a Brazilian beauty.
I find that hard to believe. 538 is a squatter/spam site.
Your post is rubbish and you are a spammer.
Mods: please check this person out. Thanks.
Barack Obama vacationed with a conviced felon who stole 3.2 billion dollars from the taxpayers of America.
Michelle Obama did business with this convicted felon.
No way! For sure I’m not voting for Obama. Thanks a lot for the heads up.
ROTFL
Thanks for the info. I’m switching my vote to McCain.
GUYS IF ANYONE CAN PULL THIS OUT AGAINST THE OBAMA MACHINE, IT’S JOHN MCCAIN
Here’s today’s Obama Hope and Change joke from http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5051118.ece
Barack Obama lays plans to deaden expectation after election victory
Barack Obama has already started playing down expectations in his speeches
Tim Reid in Washington
Barack Obama’s senior advisers have drawn up plans to lower expectations for his presidency if he wins next week’s election, amid concerns that many of his euphoric supporters are harbouring unrealistic hopes of what he can achieve.
The sudden financial crisis and the prospect of a deep and painful recession have increased the urgency inside the Obama team to bring people down to earth, after a campaign in which his soaring rhetoric and promises of “hope” and “change” are now confronted with the reality of a stricken economy.
One senior adviser told The Times that the first few weeks of the transition, immediately after the election, were critical, “so there’s not a vast mood swing from exhilaration and euphoria to despair”.
The aide said that Mr Obama himself was the first to realise that expectations risked being inflated.
In an interview with a Colorado radio station, Mr Obama appeared to be engaged already in expectation lowering. Asked about his goals for the first hundred days, he said he would need more time to tackle such big and costly issues as health care reform, global warming and Iraq. “The first hundred days is going to be important, but it’s probably going to be the first thousand days that makes the difference,” he said. He has also been reminding crowds in recent days how “hard” it will be to achieve his goals, and that it will take time.
“I won’t stand here and pretend that any of this will be easy – especially now,” Mr Obama told a rally in Sarasota, Florida, yesterday, citing “the cost of this economic crisis, and the cost of the war in Iraq”. Mr Obama’s transition team is headed by John Podesta, a Washington veteran and a former chief-of-staff to Bill Clinton. He has spent months overseeing a virtual Democratic government-in-exile to plan a smooth transition should Mr Obama emerge victorious next week. The plans are so far advanced that an Obama Cabinet has been largely decided upon, with the expectation that most of his senior appointments could be announced shortly after election day.
Yet Mr Obama and his aides are under no illusions about the size of the challenges the Democrat will inherit if he enters the Oval Office. Tom Daschle, the party’s former leader in the US Senate and a strong contender for the post of White House chief-of-staff in an Obama administration, said last month that the winner next week would have only a 50 per cent chance of winning a second term in 2012.
Not only will the next president take office with the country sliding into a potentially long recession — and mired in debt — but the challenges abroad are immense. There is an unfinished war in Iraq, a worsening situation in Afghanistan and an unstable and nuclear-armed Pakistan to contend with. Iran appears intent on acquiring the bomb and there remains the ever-present threat from al-Qaeda and Islamic extremists.
If he wins, Mr Obama will inherit a Democratic-controlled Congress, and might even have the benefit of a 60-seat filibuster-proof “supermajority” in the Senate. Such a scenario would allow him to push through legislation largely unfettered by Republican opposition. Yet it also means that should the country still be mired in recession in three years’ time, voters — who have short memories — will probably blame him and the Democrats on Capitol Hill. Those stakes have led Mr Obama to conclude that while expectations need to be tempered, big things need to be achieved very early in his first term, when he will still have the political capital to achieve some of his most ambitious legislative goals.
Having promised “real” change, the pressure will be on him to deliver. In the Colorado interview, Mr Obama added: “The next president has got to come quickly out of the box.”
The early priorities being lined up if he takes power are a mixture of symbolism and substance. He plans to make a major address in a big Muslim country early in his first term. Having pledged on the campaign trail to close Guantanamo Bay, he is also determined to make early moves to rid America of the controversial prison. Yet what to do with the remaining inmates looms as an intractable problem, as many of their home governments refuse to allow them to return.
Mr Obama’s first legislative goals will be to follow through on his pledge to cut taxes for the middle class and raise them for the wealthiest Americans, and to push through a hugely expensive Bill to provide near-universal health insurance.
It was inevitable that he would flip-flop on Hope and Change. That was the first thing he had going, hope this is his last flop.
So do you think this means Barack might not put gas in Peggy Joseph’s car or pay her mortgage after all?
I just found the best video to make everyone feel better…it’s what we have all been saying to our tvs for months. enjoy
http://logisticsmonster.com/2008/10/31/warning-explicit-but-pumas-will-love-it/
Off the record, an Obama insider added “Nobody is prepared the impending McCain landslide, and it won’t be pretty. Those reporters who got booted off the plane don’t know how lucky they are.”
Did an insider really say this? If so, yay!!!
NO! But they’re thinking it.
Did you practice your viola today?
yes, it was his campaign announcing that there would be despair after Obama got elected when they realized that he can’t do anything he said he would…
hilarious…
almost as good as Biden’s “there will be a crisis of Dear LEader is elected”
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/31/obama-lays-plans-kill-expectations-election-victory/
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Obama must be running the entire campaign himself, like Hitler in the bunker.
How many more bone headed mistakes can he make between now and Tuesday?
this woman is going to be soooo upset:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=381gFG4Crr8
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Hey, I’ve been thinking about retiring in my 40s and not paying my mortgage anymore so maybe I will vote for Barry and have him help me pay for my bills too! Entitlement can be such a bitch when it doesn’t come through.
HELLZ no,
Don’t you remember: Michelle said we’re all going to have to WORK…
that gubmint check ain’t gonna come free, honey.
SELFISH
I see a great ad for this – contrast the McCain’s record of charity and adoption of a third world child to Obama. Selfish indeed. Devastating.
Yes, as an adoptive mom myself (my child is a girl from China), I resonate with this big time!
Dang. I came over here thinking I’d finally get to see the “Whitey” tape.
Oh, too late! We’ve all been watching it so much we’ve gotten sick of it. I think it’s on one of the archive pages, if you want to wade through them.
Look for the title “Idiots look for Whitey Tape.”
Well, if real people’s take on the 0bama hypnomercial mean anything, Frank Luntz (who’s now in the tank for 0bama, btw) had a focus group of 24 undecideds watching it.
They all (every single one of them) looked like they came away having been bored to death for a half hour, NONE having any more answers than they went in with, and NONE who felt they were able to choose a candidate based on what they had just seen. No hands raised when Luntz asked if they’d learned anything new or if they’d learned enough.
In addition, I saw a ratings breakdown by a commenter somewhere (I think Hillbuzz) and besides Maryland, which was #1 (DC insider crowd), the highest rated places to tune in were Philly and Florida (all the folks who had just turned on their TVs early to catch their hometown teams play the last game of the World Series). So, most of the 30+ million were DC insiders or baseball fans (not including 0bots, of course).
All in all, I’d say barky’s little adventure was a flop.
Regarding Obama and his goons trying to lower expectations-talk about having your cake and eating it too. Like telling his followers that the kool-aid they just drank is laced with cyanide and they’re all going to die. Please dear God, give us a miracle and get rid of this evildoer.
RNC’s Really Funny Three Stooges Ad
LOL!
http://patriotroom.com/?p=3633
It is good…
I didn’t watch, I didn’t watch online either.
Posting about my polls again if you missed them.
People Want To Know About P.U.M.A. And Obama Associates-Polls
A lot of PUMA are leaving comments.
Bill Richardson dropped the number to $120,000.
Lisa!
Great post! I was wondering the same thing.
That infomercial was such an embarassment no Obots wanted to defend it!
lol….did you also notice the lack of trolls the day after?
Jong’a comments casts AAs and Obama supporters as violent bullies who are unable to deal with frustration or defeat.
So, in and of itself, it is a racist and sexist remark.
Heads up: Sarracuda is at a rally in PA, they are waiting for her to appear…live feed on CNN now (4:07PM Eastern)
Thanks for the heads up.
McCain wins by a landslide! How does the media spin this amazing upset?
“The big mistake Obama made was throwing those reporters off the plane. This arrogant act cost Obama the election. Americans don’t like seeing the media being disrespected.”
Just that one little mistake ….
At this point I don’t care what spin they use – as long as 0bama LOSES!
And when Mac and Sarah win, the only “spinning” the 0bamamedia are gonna be doing is around the toilet bowl.
Bill Richardson says Obama wants to increase taxes for those making over $120,000, giving tax cuts to those making less then that. The definition of middle class keeps changing. PLEASE WAKE ME UP FROM THIS NIGHTMARE!
And we haven’t even voted yet….
maybe Richardson is just doing his bit to save america?
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Well, since this is an open thread, I have a bit of info!
I got a call last night from the RNC & McCain is having a rally just a few miles from my home. I can’t go because I have to watch the baby. But my dh is taking my daughter. She is so excited (she is the one who made the McCan sign and taped it to a stick:-) So I went out today & had a couple shirts made. Hers says “PUMA Cub for McCain/Palin 2008″ & dh’s says “Democrats for McCain/Palin”. I told him to approach any reporter they see…so hopefully I’ll get to see them on tv:-) Very excited over here.
Wow, that sounds fabulous! Get photos.
So exciting, Lisa!
I’ve been wondering about Virginia – how’s Mac doing there – and do you think he’s gonna take your state? What are you hearing/seeing?
Hannity and Colmes staffers track down Rashid Khalidi.
Vote For National Survival:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/vote_for_national_survival.html
Thanks LisaB. I don’t think the Obamamercial went over too well. I didn’t watch it, of course. I watched O’Reilly, who had 7 million viewers that night. The Boston Globe article was dead-on. Obama would punish dissenters. Something inside me is telling me Obama won’t win though. I just hope there are enough jail cells, everywhere, to hold the jackasses who decide to riot when he loses.
Not ‘would’ – ‘already is’.
Think of the caucuses. Think of the ACORN people at the grassroots. Think of the harassments going on.
The great leader will do as little of this as possible. As now. The idea is to continue to disavow any connection with it.
Age-old scam.
Oh jong you arugula-brain. There are bad words for your level of intellect but I just ate my dinner so I won’t use them for now. But until then: what a fucking idiot you are, Jong. Jong Jong Big Hopey Changey Bong Jong. Blah-blah what utter mindless rubbish.
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Chris “Countrywide” Dodd under investigation?
There is a god after all?
But it’s a bit late, isn’t it?
It’s never too late to see a criminal sit in jail where he belongs. Barry is next.
Direct clip link.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27452151#27452151
Take a look at this AWESOME flyer the McCain campaign is handing out in PA:
(over at Hill Buzz):
http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/pennsylvania-democrats-voting-for-mccain-will-decide-this-election/
I’ve always loved that photo of Hillary and McCain. What a kick ass flyer! Democrats will decide – love it.
McCain is a class act all the way.
John talks to people. He’s people himself. He’s not trying to use the Okey Doke on people. He’s not bamboozling. He’s just genuine.
People not voting for him will have a lot to answer for.
PS. Welcome back, AT!
Lordy! Lordy!
Saracudda just came onstage in York, PA to ROARING crowd. The woman is a ROCK STAR!!!
I think the BO campaign has seriously underestimated her…the Sarah Effect…
go Sarah and John…
Oh, they didn’t underestimate her. The instant they got news that the secret service had loaded a family on a plane in Alaska, they freaked out.
Like I said before. O’blahblah thought he could win if 1) Republicans, demoralized by Bush, stayed home and didn’t vote (Palin consolidated the base and nixed that); 2) Hillary supporters fell in line (PUMA’s became self aware, organizing & nixed that).
It’s been over for Obama since the night of Palin’s convention speech.
Yeah she is a rock star. Both she and Hillary have those little things Obama never seemed to grow.
Matriarchy!
lol, you said it!
Sarah Palin appears at each rally with enthusiastic roaring crowds, yet the MSM continues to report that she’s bringing the ticket down. You never hear them say that the people love her.
ROFL at Erica Jong. Sorry, I found that article hilarious (in its cute delusional kinda way)
I would demand that Larry Sinclair allegations be debunked or investigated….murder of Donald Young, gay choir director, og Trinity church, a member for twenty years Murdered in Dec 2007, while in communication with Larry Sinclair. This is real easy to confirm, phone records.
154 day Junior senator
Endorsed by Oprah and titled “the one”
First 1/2 black Democratic nominee for President
$1 Billion Dollar campaign
Loved by Who’s Who in Hollywood, Music and Media
Chris Matthews and Keith Oberman – NOVEMBER 4, 2008 -”OBAMA TO GIVE CONCESSION SPEECH 9PM CST”
PRICELESS
CLINTON V. PALIN 2012
i’m 31 years old. i could never vote for Barack Obama. he’s not to be trusted. i plan to either write in Hillary Clinton’s name or vote for John McCain. Obama scares me. i don’t understand how anybody can trust him.
Bee, please do not write in Hillary’s name…as much as we love and respect her, a write in vote for Hill is a vote for obama. Vote John McCain…this is the only safe thing to do.
Literally, in most states a write-in for Hillary will go to Obama because they are from the same party. You gotta vote McCain.
Bee, please check your state’s rules on voting. Your ballot can get tossed, O-fraud may get your vote by association of party affiliation because of your Hillary write in. Your vote for McCain would mean Ofraudulent will need two.
Please, I was a Hillary supporter too. Barry is really really freaking me out with his “new world order”. If you hesitate, please just think of Joe the Plumber and what they did to an average American. Big brother is not the kind of society I want to be part of.
Sara was just getting to the best part of her speech and CNN just nixed the feed. What gives?
Obama threatened to throw them off the plane.
-=chortle=-
you know it…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Thanks for the post.
I miss Molly Ivins, too. She was one of the greats.
Some BamaBot is stealing my name again.
Guess I’ll have to change my name…again…a stupid bot posted the above comment…and stole my name again.
I thought Calif Gov Arnold S was supposed to be at McCain’s rally this afternoon but don’t see a video feed on CNN…is someone else carrying it? Would love to see it.
Just saw Frank Luntz (republican-turned-0bamabot) on FoxNews. He said “I would be shocked – it would be bigger than Dewey Beats Truman if McCain were to pull this out!”
I just can’t figure out what happens to people’s brains when they drink the barky Kool-Aid (as almost all of the pollsters have) – they don’t just become rabid “fans,” they become propagandist extraordinaires!
These people ARE PURPOSELY weighting their polls with almost twice as many democrats as republicans, KNOWING that that kind of turnout isn’t gonna happen. Something is soooooooo fishy….
Scandalous indeed!!!
McCain won because he threw the reporters off the plane. That’s how they’ll spin it.
Also, they’ll blame “the blogs” (meaning Obama blogs, forget about the rest of us) for “distorting the truth.”
Where do they get these botish people? That statement was highly irresponsible. Media commentators are never supposed to declare a winner before the election has even take place. LUNTZBOT kisses Nobama’s ass.
ADMIN: SUSAN OR LARRY
A stupid bot has stolen my name again. I used to post under LN then after they stole my name, I started posting under WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName…now they have stolen that one as well.
I will send you an email confirming this and ask that you please ban the bot who is using my name-I will also confirm a new user name with you via that email. Thanks!
this is one of their posts:
Comment by WasLNbutNoBamaBotsKeepStealingMyName | 2008-10-31 16:08:38
Some BamaBot is stealing my name again.
Frank Luntz say’s McCain has no chance of winning. OBOT to the nth degree!!!!
I just want to thank LisaB for putting this article together. It’s a huge article and that’s hard work. Thank you, girl!
Hear hear – great article, great job! Lisa, you and all the other great writers at NQ are such a gift to us!
I’m really sorry – too often I get so hung up on and so exasperated with this dang election I forget to express appreciation for all you do.
That is amazing!
Despite the evidence to the contrary, Barack Obama passes himself off as a “Constitutional Scholar” while, at the same time, telling us all what’s wrong with the Constitution.
My opinion, to which I give at least as much weight (yeah, I took Con Law in law school, too, whoopee), is that the framers of the Constitution knew exactly what they were doing and didn’t “forget” to include the part about what the government “has to do for you” or the part about “redistribution” (a/k/a “spreading the wealth” around).
But, to break the tie, I will defer to the drafter of the document in question. I yield to James Madison [from WorldNetDaily via HillBuzz http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/whose-money-is-it-anyway-who-worked-for-it-you-did/:
Making “everybody better off” — not included.
Almost doubling the Capital Gains Tax, even though it will hurt the economy, due to “fairness” — not only stupid, but also not included.
This just in, partial release of Barack Obama’s grade transcripts:
Constitutional Law: F
Economics Grade: F
Election: NO Thanks
Erica Jong is quoted as saying she is so distraught over the stress of thinking The One might lose that:
This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read! Thanks LisaB for the big laugh! I remember when Martin Mull did a routine where he played the uke and sang a blues for suburban folks. I remember one stanza:
“I woke up this morning, and found my woman was gone (2 times)
I felt so sad and lonely, I threw my drink across the lawn . . . ”
(or something similar) Anyway, this reminds me of Erica’s quote. These people are totally out of touch with humanity. No wonder Sarah Palin & Joe the Plumber have been such a breath of fresh air . . .
LisaB,
I was just over at HotAir and the London Times has a report on Obama’s infomercial. It’s a great article. I think we need to send our young journalist majors to British Universities. Maybe they will get a better education and might do a better job of reporting.
Further down their front page is another about the infomercial being a ratings flop. That is a good article too.
LisaB,
PS, the only good reporting I have read( from the USA) is on the web especially the great websites of PUMAs. I love this website and all of the authors who contribute here and work so hard to keep us informed. Thanks to all of you.
yeah there is that group of college students that broke the acorn / voter fraud story…
its the adults, the professionals that have been corrupted…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Gerald,
Your right. We need more like them.
I’ll have to accept the word that the pro-Bobo MSM isn’t gushing over the infomercial because I haven’t listened to them in months. My guess is they’ve checked out some internal polls and come to the pain-wracking conclusion that Bobo is a no-go. The fool’s throwing reporters off his plane sounds like something a tinpot dictator would do. Imagine that….
They cut the last scene. It goes like this.
The audience is so enthralled with Barack Hussein Obama that they try to get as close to him as possible. At one point a hand reaches out to him and the voice says: SAVE US!
Barack Hussein Obama takes the hand and suddenly there is an explosion. The essence of Barack Hussein Obama pollutes all of the audience. The winds carry his non-integrity essence throughout all of America. Within one week all of America is defiled, contaminated, devalued, the traditions desecrated, and everyone controlled by corruption. There is no longer resistance to the ONE. When the fog clears all signs of national tradition in Washington have disappeared. There is only ONE non-being that can do as he pleases. He puts his arm around his wife and says:
“MICHELLE, LET’S NOW LEAVE THIS PLACE. WE HAVE DONE OUR WORK AND FULFILLED OUR CALLING. NO MORE WILL OUR UPRIGHT BROTHERS AND SISTERS BE THREATENED BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
As they walk into the sunset, the hymn The Communist International, sung by Bill Ayers and companions is heard, with some calls ringing from strange towers underscoring the FINAL SCENE!
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